THE RESIGNATION EPIDEMIC.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1914, Page 5

THE RESIGNATION EPIDEMIC.

"A COCK-AND-BULL STORY." ! An echo of the Ulster trouble seems ; SiJ& T * + { eT S®?* 1 in New Zealand during the last day or two. Accord-

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ing to & rumor in circulatian- ? in Christchuroh on Tuesday, British, officers, resident in the Dominion, have received cablegrams from, their Unionist friends in Great Br&bain urging ihem. to resign their Imperial commissions as a protest gainst the use ©f troops in Ulster. Whether or not any response has been made to these suggestions is knowaonly to the men directly . concerned, but it is stated that in two cases, at any rate, Tesignations «f officers in the Canterbury distract have been forwardedl. "A codk~and-bull-storj7., I expect," said an officer who was questioned by a reporter.. "Of course some men take their politics pretty^seriously and think Asgnith, Hedmond saad the a-est are the deuce *ivith: Ireland, but an officer would Jhafdly be likely to resign his commission merely ;because of a few sensational i*>porte before any real itroiffble had! ioocktred." ~/•'■ •